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    Dame Julia Myra Hess, DBE (25 February 1890 – 25 November 1965) was an English pianist best known for her performances of the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven...
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  • Joy). The English title derives from famous piano transcriptions made by Myra Hess, in 1926 for piano solo and in 1934 for piano duet, as published by Oxford...
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  • The Dame Myra Hess Award is an award for postgraduate students of the piano. It has been presented by the Musicians Benevolent Fund (now Help Musicians...
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  • and songwriter Myra Hess (1890–1965), British pianist Myra Maimoh (born 1982), Cameroon singer Myra Merritt, American operatic soprano Myra Molloy (born...
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    Myra Hess Concerts: How the concerts started (1)" Archived 30 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine, National Gallery, retrieved 18 June 2017 "The Myra Hess...
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  • proto-Zionist Myra Hess (1890–1965), British pianist Nigel Hess, British composer Ortwin Hess, British optician and physicist Orvan Hess (1906–2002), doctor...
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  • 2015. Hess is the great nephew of British pianist Dame Myra Hess. He named his music publishing company Myra Music in her honour. In 2023, Hess was announced...
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    Ryton's play Crown Matrimonial. More recent work includes the role of Dame Myra Hess in the tribute show Admission: One Shilling from 2009, the narrator in...
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    Margaret Bondfield Constantine II of Greece Robert Donat Jean Henderson Myra Hess Peter Mandelson Donald Sinden Harold Wilson Gayler, Hih J. (1996). Geographical...
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    instrumental concerto. This music became famous in a piano transcription by Dame Myra Hess as Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. Bach took office as Thomaskantor, the...
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    of 11; then, at the age of 18 he moved to London to study under Dame Myra Hess on a scholarship and has been a London resident ever since, currently...
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    with J. S. Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring in the transcription by Myra Hess, the first piece he publicly performed as an adult pianist. Lipatti's...
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    documentaries, especially portions of one of the concerts given by Dame Myra Hess in the National Gallery while its collection was evacuated for safe-keeping...
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    Sonatas Nos. 30–32 (Gould) (1956) (Recording). Naxos Records. Hess, Myra (2013). Myra Hess: Complete Solo & Concerto Studio Recordings (Recording). Appian...
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  • Feuermann, William Primrose, Lillian Kallir, Joseph Szigeti, Felix Salmond, Myra Hess, Rudolf Serkin, Yehudi Menuhin, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Lili Kraus, Mischa...
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    toured as accompanist for the singer Vladimir Rosing along with pianist Myra Hess in the north of England in late 1922. In 1921 Moore made his first gramophone...
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    first air-conditioned gallery opening in 1949. For the course of the war Myra Hess and other musicians, such as Moura Lympany, gave daily lunch-time recitals...
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  • Dame Myra Hess. Hess was so impressed with the 15-year-old Norton's playing that she arranged for Norton to study in England in 1923 with Hess's own mentor...
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    however, he was able to study piano in London, from 1959, with Dame Myra Hess. Hen, Ferdinand J. de (1979). Music in Belgium. Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
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    including: Brahms: Trio Op. 8, with Isaac Stern and Myra Hess Brahms: Trio Op. 87, with Joseph Szigeti and Myra Hess Schumann: Trio Op. 63, and Schubert: Trio No...
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    His mother, Elizabeth (née Ivey), had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist. She taught piano for extra money...
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  • 1 June 1879 – 26 August 1960) was a Russian British concert pianist. Myra Hess, pianist, best known for her performances of the works of Bach, Mozart...
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    1942 at the National Gallery, in a lunch-time concert organised by Dame Myra Hess. Although she wrote "went off very well" in her diary, Ferrier was disappointed...
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  • broken arm; Allan, a farmer; and Bill, a locomotive engine driver. Dame Myra Hess is featured giving a concert at the National Gallery in London, several...
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  • recordings by Alfred Cortot, Harold Bauer, and Percy Grainger, followed by Myra Hess, Moriz Rosenthal, Raoul Koczalski, Wilhelm Backhaus, and Shura Cherkassky...
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    salesman, and orchestra manager (at one point turning pages for Dame Myra Hess during the wartime concerts at the National Gallery.), before becoming...
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  • working class audience cuts straight to the Queen enjoying the music of Myra Hess at one of the (London) National Gallery's lunch-time classical music concerts...
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    Brahms: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello No. 1 in B Major, op. 8 (with Myra Hess and Pablo Casals) 1946 Violin selections from the movie Humoresque (1946...
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  • Age of the Piano are Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould, Wanda Landowska, Myra Hess, Arthur Rubinstein, Alexander Brailowsky, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Josef...
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    continued his studies with Max Rostal. Once settled in London Neaman met Dame Myra Hess and Howard Ferguson, both of whom became life-long friends. They invited...
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